Your Song Menu
Youth Unlimited Convention Workshop
July 21-25, 2006
Led by Paul Ryan & Deborah Lemmen
Calvin College & Calvin Institute of Christian Worship

Workshop Description
Whether you are eating-in or dining out a menu is desirable. When you’re ordering your songs for worship a menu is no less valuable. In this workshop we’ll look through various menus for songs, check our song diet, and find out how to order the best for our worship gatherings.

Introduction
A song menu is a gathering of songs from which we choose what we sing. The menus available to us are as diverse as the restaurants in our local communities. Some menus provide us quick, popular, easy songs to learn like fast food restaurants. Other menus display less popular, but stable, healthy songs, like a mom and pop’s family restaurant. Still others challenge us to explore diverse or global offerings, like an ethnic restaurant serving Indian or Thai food. The challenge for song leaders is to establish a menu from the variety of menus that is on the one hand accessible and on the other hand healthy.

View the handout for this workshop

Related Resources
Music as Soul Food